NO thank YOU.. with the g15, 16 being at 1.8-2.8 w/ INSANELY great macro.. i really dont see why people buy this camera..

if they can just have this body sculpt w/ the guts of the g15/16.. id buy it in a heart beat

gooh

“.. i really dont see why people buy this camera..”

Sensor size.

uaio

Plus the fully articulated screen and lens IQ.

wylun

ya but at most likely a 700-800 price range and for probably the same slowness of features.. you might as well buy a SL1, b/c the g1x isnt even that small

John

Your comparing a 1/1.7″ sensor in the G16 to a 1.5″ sensor in the G1X????

CRB

question is: how about the AF? better?

Panchoskywalker

Now we’re talking.

wolfman

An OVF like the ones in Fuji cameras (like the X100) will help sell this camera.

madmax

That´s a dream. IMO, no way they can put that hybrid EVF/OVF in this camera. More likely it could be something as the OVF in X10 or X20 cameras, but I expect something worse than that.

Foot of our stairs

It would have been bolder and arguably better to do an X100 on this and have a fixed fast 35mm equivalent

ronin

Film SLRs dominated the market, but the rangefinder Leica M series still survived. Although the SLR featured through the lens WYSIWYG viewing, enough photographers remained who didn’t want to see what the camera sees so much as they wanted to see the real world just as it was, in realtime. This clear view of what was actually happening right now was important to their artistic vision.

EVF is another step away from even SLR reflex viewing. There is a strong advantage to some photographers in direct optical real-time, unfiltered viewing, and precious few cameras remain that offer that. The Fuji X20, The Fuji X100s, the Fuji XP1…. and this. This will appeal to artists who want to be out there in the real world and happen to use the camera as a tool to achieve their vision and would prefer not to see it though the slow, undetailed, jerky, lagging, artificial once removed medium of a little tv screen.